Top Yardie imprisoned

Title

Top Yardie imprisoned

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

14 Aug 1993

Year of production

1993

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Duration

00:03:23

Description

Alastair Lawson-Tancred reports on the conviction at the Old Bailey of a West Indian man, Leroy Leslie, a member of the Yardie gang, for murder of Andre Blackman in Stoke Newington and injury of Geoff(?) Dixon. With comment from Pauline Mills, friend of victim; Detective Inspector John McCulloch(?), describes Leslie as a top level Yardie; Detective Superintendent Michael Cray praises the witnesses for coming forward.

Contributors

Pauline Mills; John McCulloch(?); Michael Cray; Alastair Lawson-Tancred

Keywords

London; Homicide; Murder trials; Imprisonment; Trials; African-Caribbean peoples; Sentencing; Witnesses; Organized crime; Stoke Newington; Geoff(?) Dixon; Andre Blackman

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